William Pratt senior

London merchant, partner with Horatio Clagett as tobacco brokers. His appearance in a dozen claims in Jamaica flowed from the case of Pratt v Willis, to which his executors (including his nephew William Pratt the younger) were party. In turn, this Chancery suit appears linked to the role of William Pratt of America Square as executor under the will of John Willis (proved in 1825). In the case of Fuller's Rest estate he - or his nephew of the same name - appears to have advanced a mortgage to John Willis c. 1825.

1. Will of William Pratt of [Russell Square] St George Bloomsbury [made in 1827] proved 22/01/1830. He left £3000 and the interest on £12,000 3% consols for life to his nephew Charles Pratt of Totton near Southampton, son of his late brother Alexander. After Charles Pratt's death £3000 each of the £12,000 was to pass for the benefit of three married women in and around London (Margaret Dyer; Louisa da Silva; Caroline Courthope) and Henry Pratt, the reputed son of his [the testator's] nephew Charles Pratt [of Totton]. After monetary legacies to several other individuals including members of the Clagett family and to his god-daughter Lavinia daughter of his late friend Benjamin Waterhouse of Kingston Jamaica, he left his residuary estate to his nephew William Pratt the younger, the son of his [the testator's] deceased brother John Pratt.

1. PROB 11/1765/379